Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SAME TIME as its "austerity" dogma disrupts the lives of underdeveloped nations, it furthers the spread of multinational corporate power. Turkey was pressured this January (in the same 'package' of concessions as the $2.2 billion cut in spending) into rescinding its rules prohibiting foreign banks from opening offices in Turkey, and allowing foreign oil drilling concessions...
...Slam magazine advertised its latest "Cure for frigidity"--a woman photographed flat on her back, her legs spread-eagled, with a jack-hammer pointed at her crotch...
Even if women enter "the business" of their own free will, one must ask what happens to them after that. Suppose a woman has agreed to pose for a picture in which she will be bound up. Once there, when she has been strapped, spread-eagled to a table or a ladder or a cross, what happens? She certainly has no say in the matter, and no lawyer or contract could help her at that point...
...Rumors spread that the Cubans from the U.S. might have to wait a month before being allowed to take their relatives to Florida. Meanwhile, restrictions on journalists were tightened. Cameras and film were seized and accreditations were withheld...
...school board members argued the pairing plan would be "educationally more sound" and would spread the effects of desegregation across more of the city's students, rather than concentrating the impact arbitrarily...